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Jk rowling

  • 11-02-2008 4:18pm
    #1
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    Was there big ques in UCD today to get the tickets to jk rowling?


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  • #2
    analyse this
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭analyse this


    huge!


  • #3
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    analyse this wrote: »
    huge!
    Is there any chance that she will sign autographs later tommorow after the award ceremony for people who dont have tickets? Would non- UCD students be allowed near the place??


  • #4
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    irish&proud wrote: »
    Oh crap....is there any chance that she will sign autographs later tommorow after the award ceremony for people who dont have tickets? Would non- UCD students be allowed near the place??

    Can someone please help me??


  • #5
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    irish&proud wrote: »
    Can someone please help me??


    I don't think so. They had a raffle for people to get their books signed.


  • #6
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    if you dress up as a wizard they'd probably let you in without a ticket


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  • #7
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    EamonnKeane wrote: »
    if you dress up as a wizard they'd probably let you in without a ticket

    I might just try it :P


  • #8
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Tom65 wrote: »
    I don't think so. They had a raffle for people to get their books signed.
    I never heard about this? I have a book! :(


  • #9
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    The_Minister wrote: »
    I never heard about this? I have a book! :(

    You big ghey. Go to Tim Harford in TCD on Wednesday instead.


  • #10
    stolenwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭stolenwine


    Ibid wrote: »
    You big ghey. Go to Tim Harford in TCD on Wednesday instead.

    Ooh thats right and what other big names are you getting in er... Naomi Campbell. Maybe if you sit in the front row her flying filofax might hit you! :)


  • #11
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    stolenwine wrote: »
    Ooh thats right and what other big names are you getting in er... Naomi Campbell. Maybe if you sit in the front row her flying filofax might hit you! :)

    Excuse me but I'm having a private word the co-mod of the Economics forum. Us economists shouldn't be associating with popular culture icons like JK Rowling or Naomi Campbell.

    We're nowhere near cool enough to be seen in the same room as them.


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  • #12
    Mr Minraise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Mr Minraise


    She's not coming anymore. It now a 'live video link' to theatre M


  • #13
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    Mr Minraise wrote: »
    She's not coming anymore. It now a 'live video link' to theatre M

    Are you serious?? Shes not coming to Dublin at all?


  • #14
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    That's a live video link from Theatre L to Theatre M, as I understand it.


  • #15
    Mr Minraise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Mr Minraise


    irish&proud wrote: »
    Are you serious?? Shes not coming to Dublin at all?


    Deadly. Heard it last night from a debating mate of mine. Then when i came into to college this morning i saw that all the Jk Rowling posters have new white stickers on them explaining that is now just a live feed from some other part of the world.

    Pretty pissed off myself. Really wanted to question her about Dumbledore's new found sexuality


  • #16
    Brimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Brimmy


    Mr Minraise wrote: »
    She's not coming anymore. It now a 'live video link' to theatre M

    Bwahaha! I saw that just there a minute ago but I thought it was a video link from L to M for those that didn't have tickets, but if she's not showing up that's even better.


  • #17
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    It's the link from L to M. She is still coming. Reasons why I know this to be true:

    1) If they were replacing the actual talk with a video feed, why would they move to a smaller theatre? Surely there'd be enough demand to keep L anyway.

    2) A friend of mine heard directly from the auditor of the L&H that JK would be in L and there'd be a video feed to M


  • #18
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    No discussing of ticket sales. Period. Even if it's just: "Someone offered my a MILLION EURO for my ticket, but I told him no!"


  • #19
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    Raphael wrote: »
    No discussing of ticket sales. Period. Even if it's just: "Someone offered my a MILLION EURO for my ticket, but I told him no!"

    How long will this event last do you think?? Are non-UCD students allowed into theatre M with the webcast?


  • #20
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    It wasnt even on the news.Will ferrell got more coverage while JK is much more famous. Anyone who had a ticket..What was it like. Did she sign any autograpghs?


  • #21
    Umaro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Umaro


    But Will Ferrell has that raw sex appeal.


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  • #22
    stolenwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭stolenwine


    Is it really so strange? Hollywood will always trump authors no matter how famous. Its also the same in terms of the music industry movie stars age gracefully on the big screen where as old rock stars are for the most part an embarrassment the longer they stay on stage.


  • #23
    fillefatale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    How was it?


  • #24
    redcar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭redcar


    Someone say it was terrible and not worth going to... I wanted to go but couldn't... so please say I missed nothing! lol


  • #25
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    irish&proud wrote: »
    It wasnt even on the news.Will ferrell got more coverage while JK is much more famous. Anyone who had a ticket..What was it like. Did she sign any autograpghs?
    There will be a clip about it on the Den, there were RTE cameras there.
    She signed one autograph, from a little boy dressed in full wizard outfit.

    It was short (the event), but I'm glad I went.
    She read from the book, took ten pre-submitted questions, got the award, then left.


  • #26
    irish&proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭irish&proud


    The_Minister wrote: »
    There will be a clip about it on the Den, there were RTE cameras there.
    She signed one autograph, from a little boy dressed in full wizard outfit.

    It was short (the event), but I'm glad I went.
    She read from the book, took ten pre-submitted questions, got the award, then left.

    Could anyone without a ticket have gotten in to get an autograph?


  • #27
    the evil lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭the evil lime


    No. Even those with tickets couldn't get them.


  • #28
    JumpJump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭JumpJump


    F uck this overrated hack.

    Yiz should have gone to Eddie Izzard.


  • #29
    McGinty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭McGinty


    I am soooo happy I missed it, I had to go to something else, that has made a **** day much better,


  • #30
    panda100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    JumpJump wrote: »
    F uck this overrated hack.

    Yiz should have gone to Eddie Izzard.

    Feck did I miss him??!! Damnation!

    Theres been an amazing calibre of personalities visiting UCD this year. I hope someone has invited Rowan Atkinson,that would really top of the year for me!Rowan Atkinson or Jimmy Carr,Im not fussy.


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  • #31
    RIP-sanity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭RIP-sanity


    I went and was very glad. I had fairly low expectations but enjoyed myself, she proved to be very witty and personable and I think most who went would agree.. Funniest moment was when James Mountjoy L&H person was one of the "chosen" who got to ask a question and everyone did a bit of a cynical laugh considering he's way up in the L&H.. J.K just looked around and asked "What? Why is it funny?" She read very well also.


  • #32
    gubbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    I thought it was brilliant. I loved the way she paused as she read in order to tell people things that she's considered while writing them.

    I remember my friend saying that the reason she didn't go to Trinity was because they didn't have anywhere big enough for her (she's a Trinity student and this was her attempt to have a "Well my college is way greater then yours and she so would have picked Trinity first") I laughed when she then asked for a ticket

    People were really kinda in shock I think after. There were so many "Wow I can't believe that was the woman who took 10 years of my reading life"


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